Species Guide — Marine Life — Shellfish

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Subcategory: Shellfish
Shellfish

Shellfish

179 species documented

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Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Blue-tinged Dosinia

Dosinia caerulea

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Boring Venus Shell

Irus crenatus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Botany Bay Tellin

Pseudarcopagia botanica

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Brown Bubble Snail

A single brownish shell on sand

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Notocypraea angustata

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Burchard's Dog Whelk

Tritia burchardi

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Cap-Shaped False Limpet

Montfortula rugosa

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Captured Worm-Shell

Petaloconchus caperatus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Dicathais orbita

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Chapman's Limpet

Scutellastra chapmani

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Checkered Periwinkle

Chlorodiloma odontis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Commercial Scallop

Pecten fumatus

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Common Butterfly Shell

Electroma papilionacea

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Common Conniwink

Bembicium melanostomum

Green Australian Map shape with the word Native over it

Common Mud Creeper

Zeacumantus diemenensis

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Common Pheasant Shell

Phasianella ventricosa

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A small brown and white crab underwater

Three-Pronged Spider Crab Halicarcinus ovatus

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Hermit crab in a shell underwater

A small hermit crab species this guy is under 10mm in size

Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach

A marine flatworm on a rock underwater

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii)

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii) <br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/thysanozoon-brocchii